• Auction 21003

    Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts

    23 November 2022 - 7 December 2022, New York

    SALE TOTAL: 1,885,716 (USD)
246 Lots for Sale 21003
Lot 1
Da Ming tongxing baochao
China, c.1375
estimate
$2,000 - $4,000

price realized
$8,820
Lot 2
De montibus, William Morris's copy
Giovanni Boccaccio, 1473
estimate
$60,000 - $90,000

Lot 3
Illuminated Bible, in German
Anton Koberger, 1483
estimate
$40,000 - $60,000

price realized
$88,200
Lot 4
Augustine's Sermons
Johann Amerbach, 1494-95
estimate
$10,000 - $20,000

price realized
$17,640
Lot 5
Aristotle's Opera, translated by John Argyropoulos et al
Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis de Forlivio for Benedictus Fontana, 1496
estimate
$20,000 - $40,000

price realized
$63,000
Lot 6
First collected Petrarch
Johann Amerbach, 1496
estimate
$10,000 - $20,000

Lot 7
De claris mulieribus
Jacobus Foresti da Bergamo, 1497
estimate
$30,000 - $50,000

Lot 8
Commentationes conditae a Philippo Beroaldo in Suetonium Tranquillum, Peter...
Suetonius and Beroaldo, 1510
estimate
$25,000 - $35,000

price realized
$25,200
Lot 9
Collectanea Adagiorum veterum
Erasmus, 1515
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$6,930
Lot 10
Antibarbarorum
Erasmus, 1520
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$3,780
Lot 11
De interdicto esu carnium
Erasmus, 1522
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$3,780
Lot 12
De recta Latini Graecique sermonis pronuntiatione
Erasmus, 1528
estimate
$10,000 - $20,000

price realized
$8,820
Lot 13
The Praise of Folie
Erasmus, 1549
estimate
$40,000 - $60,000

price realized
$113,400
Lot 14
Libellus novus et elegans ... de Pueris statim ac liberaliter instituendis
Erasmus, 1529
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$3,024
Lot 15
De immensa dei misericordia
Erasmus, 1533
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$4,410
Lot 16
Reformation Literature
Erasmus, Thomas More, Martin Luther, 1642-1808
estimate
$700 - $900

price realized
$2,016
Lot 17
Lucan's Pharsalia
Simon de Colines, 1528
estimate
$2,000 - $4,000

price realized
$2,520
Lot 18
Della vera tranquillita' dell'animo
Isabella Sforza, 1544
estimate
$2,000 - $4,000

price realized
$2,394
Lot 19
Ovid's Fastorum Lib. VI. Tristium Lib. V. De Ponto Lib. IIII.
Sebastian Gryphius, 1546
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$630
Lot 20
CLASSICAL AND CLASSIC LITERATURE
1538-1826
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$2,016
Lot 21
Selneccer's commentaries on the Prophets
Chained binding, 1567
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$6,930
Lot 22
Opera omnia
Jacob Sannazaro, 1569
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$504
Lot 23
The Workes
Sir Thomas More, 1557
estimate

This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 24
Chronicle of England and its Kings
Richard Grafton, 1569
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$9,450
Lot 25
The Faerie Queen and other works, Lord Byron's copy
Edmund Spenser, 1611
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$17,640
Lot 26
The Workes
Ben Jonson, 1616 & 1640
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

Lot 27
The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio, 1620
estimate
$7,000 - $9,000

price realized
$13,860
Lot 28
The Epistle of Gildas
London, 1638
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$630
Lot 29
A bookish blade
Northern European, 17th century[?]
estimate
$500 - $800

price realized
$1,260
Lot 30
Pseudo-Martyr
John Donne, 1610
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

Lot 31
Contemporary manuscript collection of poetry and prose
John Donne, c. 1630-1633
estimate
$200,000 - $300,000

price realized
$201,600
Lot 32
Poems and Juvenilia
John Donne, 1633
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

price realized
$23,940
Lot 33
Ignatius his Conclave, the Bradley Martin copy
John Donne, 1634
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

Lot 34
Poems
John Donne, 1639
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$6,300
Lot 35
LXXX Sermons
John Donne, 1640
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$2,016
Lot 36
Biathanatos
John Donne, 1647
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$3,528
Lot 37
Dendrologia, the Bradley Martin copy
James Howell, 1640
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$1,134
Lot 38
Therologia
James Howell, 1660
estimate
$2,500 - $3,500

price realized
$3,528
Lot 39
For the Preservation of Books and Archives
Parliament, 1643
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$1,764
Lot 40
Instructions Concerning Erecting of a Library
Gabriel Naudé, 1661
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$13,860
Lot 41
Poems and Fancies
Margaret Cavendish, 1653
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$30,240
Lot 42
Poems. By the Incomparable, Mrs. K.P.
Katherine Philips, 1664
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$13,860
Lot 43
Paradise Lost
John Milton, 1668
estimate
$12,000 - $18,000

price realized
$22,680
Lot 44
A Florida captivity narrative
after Robert Barrow, 23 February 1696/7
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

Lot 45
Florida History
6 items, 19th century
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$504
Lot 46
A Discourse of Sallets
John Evelyn, 1699
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

price realized
$882
Lot 47
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Illustrated by Picart, 1732
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

Lot 48
Tom Jones
Henry Fielding, 1749
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

Lot 49
The Rambler
Samuel Johnson, 1751
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,528
Lot 50
The Dictionary
Samuel Johnson, 1755
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

Lot 51
18th Century & Samuel Johnson
13 volumes, 1766-1836
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$2,520
Lot 52
Caedmon's Hymn
Oxford, 1752
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$504
Lot 53
Monument Eleve a lo Gloire ou Relation des Travaux et des Moyens Mechaniques
Marin Carburi de Ceffalonie, 1777
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

Lot 54
Bibliotheca classica; or, A Classical Dictionary
John Lempriere, 1788
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$882
Lot 55
Fore-edge painting
Holy Bible, 1794
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,142
Lot 56
Letters of Madame de Sevigne, extra-illustrated
Marie Sevigne, 1801
estimate
$7,000 - $9,000

Lot 57
Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of...
Alexander Mackenzie, 1801
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

price realized
$44,100
Lot 58
Caribbean Hurricane
Rear Admiral James Dacres, 1804
estimate
$400 - $600

price realized
$378
Lot 59
Polar Regions of the Western Continent Explored
W.J. Snelling, 1831
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

Lot 60
The Book of Nouns
Miniature Book, 1806
estimate
$400 - $600

price realized
$1,134
Lot 61
American imprints
Charles Lamb, 1825 & 1834
estimate
$500 - $800

price realized
$1,512
Lot 62
Rural Rides
William Cobbett, 1830
estimate
$500 - $800

price realized
$882
Lot 63
Twice-Told Tales
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1837
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$2,016
Lot 64
Mosses from an Old Manse
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1846
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

price realized
$2,142
Lot 65
The Seraphim, the Wordsworth copy
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1838
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$4,032
Lot 66
Bibliomania, extra-illustrated
Thomas Dibdin, 1842
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$10,080
Lot 67
Yesterdays with Authors, extra-illustrated
James Fields, 1882
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

price realized
$15,120
Lot 68
Diary, extra-illustrated
Samuel Pepys, 1876-79
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

Lot 69
Bibliophily and Scholarship
19th and 20th century
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$882
Lot 70
Typee, Lizzie Melville's copy
Herman Melville, 1893
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

price realized
$3,780
Lot 71
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville, 1871
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$30,240
Lot 72
The Works
Herman Melville, 1922-24
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$6,048
Lot 73
Illustrations of Himalayan Plants
J.D. Hooker & W.H. Fitch, 1855
estimate
$6,000 - $9,000

price realized
$10,080
Lot 74
Natural History
Botanical specimen albums, and others, 19th-century
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$2,016
Lot 75
Das illustrirte Mississippithal
Henry Lewis, 1854-1858
estimate
$20,000 - $30,000

Lot 76
Old Times on the Mississippi
S.L. Clemens, 1876
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$756
Lot 77
Three books about rivers
Mark Twain, et al., 19th century
estimate
$600 - $800

price realized
$1,386
Lot 78
19th Century Literature
Flaubert, Trollope, Wister, O.W. Holmes, et al, 1857-1896
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$10,710
Lot 79
Books on Italy
Howell, Browning and Dickens, 1651-1846
estimate
$600 - $800

price realized
$630
Lot 80
Shakers
3 books, early 19th-century
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$1,134
Lot 81
Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy, 1878
estimate
$2,500 - $3,500

price realized
$3,528
Lot 82
Poems
Emily Dickinson, 1890
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

price realized
$15,120
Lot 83
Poems, Third Series
Emily Dickinson, 1896
estimate
$2,500 - $3,500

price realized
$8,190
Lot 84
Four books by Emily Dickinson
1878-1935
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

price realized
$3,024
Lot 85
The Black Riders
Stephen Crane, 1895
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$1,008
Lot 86
The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane, 1895
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$1,638
Lot 87
An autobiographical letter
Stephen Crane, 2 January 1896
estimate
$12,000 - $18,000

price realized
$16,380
Lot 88
The Two Magics
Henry James, 1898
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

price realized
$3,024
Lot 89
Sailing Alone Around the World
Joshua Slocum, 1900
estimate
$700 - $1,000

price realized
$1,638
Lot 90
Queen of the Woods
Chief Simon Pokagon, 1899
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$2,520
Lot 91
Americana, Native Americana
Four volumes, 1849-1892
estimate
$600 - $800

price realized
$378
Lot 92
Youth
Joseph Conrad, 1902
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,024
Lot 93
The Education
Henry Adams, 1907
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$12,600
Lot 94
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres
Henry Adams, 1912
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$6,048
Lot 95
North of Boston
Robert Frost, 1914
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$1,638
Lot 96
A Boy's Will, inscribed with a poem
Robert Frost, 1915
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

price realized
$1,386
Lot 97
Mountain Interval, inscribed with a poem
Robert Frost, 1916
estimate
$2,500 - $3,500

price realized
$3,024
Lot 98
Six first editions
Robert Frost, 1923-1955
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$756
Lot 99
Spoon River Anthology, the Hogan copy
Edgar Lee Masters, 1915
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$1,008
Lot 100
The Land, inscribed
Vita Sackville-West, 1926
estimate
$500 - $800

price realized
$630
Lot 101
A Jury of Her Peers
Susan Glaspell, 1927
estimate
$400 - $600

price realized
$252
Lot 102
The Eclogues of Vergil in the Original Latin with an English Prose Translation...
Illustrated by Aristide Maillol, 1927
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$1,764
Lot 103
Dante
T.S. Eliot, 1929
estimate
$600 - $800

price realized
$9,450
Lot 104
Four Quartets
T.S. Eliot, 1940-42
estimate
$2,500 - $3,500

price realized
$2,268
Lot 105
The Common Reader, First and Second Series
Virginia Woolf, 1932
estimate
$700 - $900

price realized
$1,008
Lot 106
Three works
Virginia Woolf, 1929-1948
estimate
$500 - $800

price realized
$1,008
Lot 107
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka, 1937
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$3,528
Lot 108
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston, 1937
estimate
$12,000 - $18,000

price realized
$47,880
Lot 109
Letter on the U.S. Constitution
Rex Stout, 1 July 1958
estimate
$500 - $800

price realized
$126
Lot 110
20th Century Literature
C.S. Lewis, Edith Wharton, Thornton Wilder, et al, 1910-1967
estimate
$700 - $900

price realized
$3,024
Lot 111
Leaf of the Gutenberg Bible
from Wells' A Noble Fragment
estimate

This lot was withdrawn from the sale

Lot 112
Leaf from the Gutenberg Bible
First Letter of John, chapters 2-4, c.1455
estimate
$50,000 - $80,000

price realized
$69,300
Lot 113
Aquinas's Summa, pars tertia
Michael Wenssler, 1485
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

Lot 114
Bible, in Latin
Hieronymus de Paganinis, 1497
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

Lot 115
HORAE, use of Rome, in Latin and French
Thielman Kerver, 5 January 1503
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$5,040
Lot 116
Dante's Divine Comedy
Heirs of Aldus, 1515
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$5,670
Lot 117
De vitis, sectis, et dogmatibus omnium haereticorum
Gabriel du Preau, 1569
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$1,890
Lot 118
The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon
London, 1605
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$9,450
Lot 119
Two rare works on Pope Joan
Alexander Cooke and Robert Ware, 1610 and 1689
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$2,016
Lot 120
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes, 1620
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$12,600
Lot 121
The Life of Merlin
Thomas Heywood, 1641
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$1,638
Lot 122
Breve relatione d'alcune missioni de PP. della Compagnia di Giesu nella Nuova...
Francesco Giuseppe Bressani, 1653
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

price realized
$6,300
Lot 123
Receuil de cent estampes representant differentes Nations du Levant
Le Hay and Ferriol, 1714 and 1715
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$4,410
Lot 124
Bible Illustrations
After Bernard Picart and others, 1728
estimate
$700 - $1,000

price realized
$3,780
Lot 125
Greek and Roman Antiquities
Gronovius and others, Venice, 1732-1737
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$1,260
Lot 126
Hortus Elthamensis
Johann Dillenius, 1732
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

Lot 127
Architetture, e Prospettive
Giuseppe Bibiena, 1740
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

Lot 128
The Commentaries of Caesar
Translated by William Duncan, 1753
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$4,788
Lot 129
I riti nuziali degli antichi romani
In a Lafertè binding, 1762
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

Lot 130
An Essay in Praise of Women
James Bland, 1733
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$11,970
Lot 131
A Miscellany of Poems
Samuel Johnson, 1731
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

price realized
$1,512
Lot 132
A Voyage to Abyssinia
Samuel Johnson, 1735
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$630
Lot 133
London: A Poem
Samuel Johnson, 1738
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$1,890
Lot 134
Irene: A Tragedy
Samuel Johnson, 1749
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

Lot 135
Prayers and Meditations
Samuel Johnson, 1785
estimate
$700 - $1,000

Lot 136
An Account of Corsica
James Boswell, 1768
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$756
Lot 137
The Question of Literary Property
James Boswell, 1774
estimate
$1,500 - $2,000

price realized
$1,638
Lot 138
Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
Samuel Johnson, 1775
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$756
Lot 139
A Letter to the People of Scotland, Benjamin Vaughan's copy
James Boswell, 1785
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

price realized
$1,386
Lot 140
Tour to the Hebrides, uncut in original boards, from a lending library
James Boswell, 1785
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,024
Lot 141
Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, inscribed
Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1786
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$882
Lot 142
Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson , LL.D.
Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1788
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$1,890
Lot 143
The Life of Samuel Johnson, first state
James Boswell, 1791
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

Lot 144
Life of Samuel Johnson
James Boswell, 1791
estimate
$1,000 - $1,500

price realized
$1,764
Lot 145
Samuel Johnson
Thomas Carlyle, 1853
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$756
Lot 146
Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian
Robert Adam, 1764
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

Lot 147
Plato's Dialogues
Translated by Floyer Sydenham, 1767-1779
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$5,292
Lot 148
The Deserted Village, a Poem
Oliver Goldsmith, 1770
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$756
Lot 149
Tableaux Historiques de la Révolution Française
1804
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,276
Lot 150
Christabel; Kubla Khan; The Pains of Sleep
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1816
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

price realized
$2,142
Lot 151
Description de l'Egypte
Paris, 1809-1813 & 1817-[1830]
estimate
$180,000 - $250,000

Lot 152
Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper, 1826
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$6,048
Lot 153
Y-King
First ever printing in any language, 1834-1839
estimate
$20,000 - $40,000

price realized
$22,680
Lot 154
The Aboriginal Port Folio
James Otto Lewis, 1835
estimate
$40,000 - $60,000

price realized
$37,800
Lot 155
Voyage Pittoresque et Archéologique dans la Province d'Yucatan
Jean Frédéric Maximilien Waldeck, 1838
estimate
$12,000 - $18,000

Lot 156
Wonderful Stories for Children
H.C. Andersen, 1846
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$2,016
Lot 157
Shirley
Charlotte Brontë, 1849
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,016
Lot 158
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$5,040
Lot 159
The House of Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$1,890
Lot 160
Scenes of a Clerical Life
George Eliot, 1858
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$10,080
Lot 161
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens, 1843
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$27,720
Lot 162
The Man Without a Country
Edward Everett Hale, 1865
estimate
$1,200 - $1,800

price realized
$1,008
Lot 163
A Monograph of the Capitonidae, or Scansorial Barbets
Marshall Brothers, 1870-1871
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$10,080
Lot 164
Birds of New Zealand
Walter Buller & J.G. Keulemans, 1873
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$4,410
Lot 165
The Birds of New Guinea
John Gould, 1875-1888
estimate
$100,000 - $150,000

price realized
$126,000
Lot 166
Sun-Birds
G.E. Shelley, 1876-1880
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$10,710
Lot 167
An early draft chapter on gorillas
Richard F. Burton, ca. 1876
estimate
$20,000 - $30,000

Lot 168
The Life of George Cruikshank
Extra-illustrated and pictorial binding
estimate
$2,500 - $3,500

Lot 169
A Monograph of the Bucerotidae, or Family of the Hornbills
D.G. Elliott, [1877]-1882
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$16,380
Lot 170
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain, 1885
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

Lot 171
Aves Hawaiienses
Wilson & Evans, 1890-1899
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$15,120
Lot 172
The Season books
Henry David Thoreau, 1892
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,134
Lot 173
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde, 1891
estimate
$2,000 - $4,000

price realized
$6,048
Lot 174
Poèmes, inscribed to George Meredith
Lord Alfred Douglas, 1896
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$1,008
Lot 175
An Ideal Husband
Oscar Wilde, 1899
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$1,134
Lot 176
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde, 1899
estimate
$1,000 - $2,000

price realized
$2,268
Lot 177
The City of the Soul
Alfred Douglas, 1899
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

Lot 178
The First Men in the Moon
H.G. Wells, 1901
estimate
$400 - $600

price realized
$504
Lot 179
My Friendship with Oscar Wilde, signed
Lord Alfred Douglas, 1932
estimate
$1,500 - $2,500

price realized
$1,512
Lot 180
Memoirs and Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle, 1892-94
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,772
Lot 181
Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$3,276
Lot 182
Contracts for Sherlock Holmes
Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$1,386
Lot 183
The Great Gatsby, first printing
F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$4,788
Lot 184
Original sketchbook
Edvard Munch, c.1925
estimate
$10,000 - $15,000

price realized
$35,280
Lot 185
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway, 1926
estimate
$30,000 - $50,000

Lot 186
\"…all the great faiths of the world are equal…\"
Mohandas Gandhi, 26 July 1931
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$20,160
Lot 187
Lost Horizon
James Hilton, 1933
estimate
$1,500 - $2,000

price realized
$1,386
Lot 188
Bible
Extra-illustrated & in portrait binding
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$1,890
Lot 189
Recovering from his two plane crashes in Africa
Ernest Hemingway, 24 April 1954
estimate
$5,000 - $7,000

price realized
$6,048
Lot 190
A tale of two Hemingways
Ernest Hemingway and Harvey Meyerson, 1959
estimate
$7,000 - $9,000

price realized
$7,560
Lot 191
Let Us Compare Mythologies, signed
Leonard Cohen, 1956
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

price realized
$8,190
Lot 192
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, 1960
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$8,190
Lot 193
The I Ching or Book of Changes
Presentation copy from George Harrison to Ravi Shankar, Christmas 1966
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$10,080
Lot 194
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick, 1968
estimate
$5,000 - $7,000

price realized
$10,710
Lot 195
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, signed
J.K. Rowling, 1998
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

price realized
$6,930
Lot 196
\"On my way to San Francisco\"
Jack Kerouac, 15 July 1947
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$1,638
Lot 197
\"Never worked so intensely\"
Jack Kerouac, 16 August 1947
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

price realized
$6,930
Lot 198
On Edie Parker, American families, and friendship
Jack Kerouac, 17 September 1947
estimate
$6,000 - $9,000

price realized
$8,190
Lot 199
Plans for New Year's Eve
Jack Kerouac, 23 December 1947
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$1,008
Lot 200
On writing The Town and the City
Jack Kerouac, 8 July 1948
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

Lot 201
On Trollope and his own writing
Jack Kerouac, 30 November 1948
estimate
$6,000 - $9,000

Lot 202
On writing, with mention of On the Road
Jack Kerouac, 15 January 1949
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

Lot 203
\"I sold my novel to Harcourt Brace\"
Jack Kerouac, 29 March 1949
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

price realized
$8,190
Lot 204
Writing On the Road “at night, till dawn”
Jack Kerouac, 29 April 1949
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

price realized
$9,450
Lot 205
“Write a madder letter if you can”
Jack Kerouac, 9 May 1949
estimate
$20,000 - $30,000

price realized
$30,240
Lot 206
\"Till I see you.”
Jack Kerouac, 10 October 1949
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$1,134
Lot 207
Writing, his time at Columbia, and Burroughs living in exile
Jack Kerouac 9 November 1949
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$17,640
Lot 208
\"For naturally, Sir, I reopened my Boswell & perused awhile\"
Jack Kerouac, 16 January 1950
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

Lot 209
\"I’ll tell you tales about the mad business of bringing out a book\"
Jack Kerouac, 5 March 1950
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

Lot 210
\"Unloved and lost on the plain\"
Jack Kerouac, 12 April 1950
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

Lot 211
\"Freed from anxiety about success\"
Jack Kerouac, 26 April 1950
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

Lot 212
Selling stories to buy beer
Jack Kerouac, 16 May 1950
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$1,638
Lot 213
\"I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money.”
Jack Kerouac, 5 July 1950
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

Lot 214
\"I'm writing another book\"
Jack Kerouac, 29 August 1950
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

Lot 215
On a recently finished story, including an excerpt
Jack Kerouac, 23 September 1950
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

Lot 216
On poor book sales, Babe Rawlins, and Neal Cassady
Jack Kerouac, 3 November 1950
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

Lot 217
Getting married
Jack Kerouac, 16 December 1950
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$2,016
Lot 218
Regarding On the Road, the Beats, and Cassady
Jack Kerouac, 29 December 1950
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$50,400
Lot 219
On Cassady, driving, and other topics
Jack Kerouac, 2 March 1951
estimate
$6,000 - $9,000

Lot 220
Progress with On the Road
Jack Kerouac, 20 April 1951
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$37,800
Lot 221
Re-writing On the Road
Jack Kerouac, 1 September 1951
estimate
$15,000 - $25,000

price realized
$15,120
Lot 222
Beat life in San Francisco
Jack Kerouac, 12 March 1952
estimate
$6,000 - $9,000

Lot 223
On Malcolm Cowley and titles for On the Road
Jack Kerouac, 6 August 1953
estimate
$8,000 - $12,000

price realized
$9,450
Lot 224
On the subterraneans and more
Jack Kerouac, 31 August 1953
estimate
$6,000 - $9,000

Lot 225
New Year's resolutions
Jack Kerouac, 7 January 1954
estimate
$3,000 - $5,000

price realized
$3,276
Lot 226
On making positive changes
Jack Kerouac, 15 August 1954
estimate
$5,000 - $8,000

Lot 227
A new movement in American literature
Jack Kerouac, 28 April 1957
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

Lot 228
Dharma Bums and more
Jack Kerouac, 9 June 1958
estimate
$5,000 - $7,000

Lot 229
references to Boswell and Johnson
Jack Kerouac, 12 February 1958
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$1,764
Lot 230
Buddhism and the prospect of nuclear war
Jack Kerouac, 21 July 1958
estimate
$5,000 - $7,000

Lot 231
Following a cross-country road trip
Jack Kerouac, 30 December 1959
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$3,528
Lot 232
Wish you were here, Kerouac style
Jack Kerouac, 11 January 1961
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$2,016
Lot 233
Thinking back to 125th Street
Jack Kerouac, 7 August 1961
estimate
$7,000 - $10,000

Lot 234
Writing from Florida on Samuel Johnson
Jack Kerouac, 26 December 1961
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,142
Lot 235
English heritage and other topics
Jack Kerouac, 9 February 1962
estimate
$6,000 - $9,000

Lot 236
Writing from Florida
Jack Kerouac, 4 April 1962
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$882
Lot 237
\"Just us old friends\"
Jack Kerouac, 27 May 1964
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

Lot 238
A cheery postcard
Jack Kerouac, 17 July 1964
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$2,016
Lot 239
Designs for a cabin retreat
Jack Kerouac, 1 August 1964
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

price realized
$3,024
Lot 240
\"Sir, time eats\"
Jack Kerouac, 16 October 1964
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$1,260
Lot 241
Hello from Florida
Jack Kerouac, 19 December 1964
estimate
$800 - $1,200

price realized
$882
Lot 242
Modern spontaneous prose, Fleming, and more
Jack Kerouac, 1 March 1965
estimate
$7,000 - $9,000

Lot 243
On his final novel, Satori in Paris
Jack Kerouac, 2 October 1965
estimate
$4,000 - $6,000

Lot 244
Thinking inward thoughts
Jack Kerouac, 28 April 1966
estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

price realized
$2,142
Lot 245
On Neal Cassady's death
Jack Kerouac, 21 April 1968
estimate
$6,000 - $9,000

Lot 246
A group of five postcards
Jack Kerouac, 22 November 1968
estimate
$400 - $600

price realized
$4,032
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